Embedded DTD - Link to XML

[HumbleSeeker]

I'm trying to include all the DTD I need for my program in the exe file, by specifying them as embedded resources.

The trouble I'm having is that I can't for the life of me see how I can link the DTDs to the XML documents. I'm using XmlDocument to read the XML.

Dim Xdoc as New XmlDocument()
Xdoc.LoadXml(gblObjRecordSet("xmlContent"))

Anyone got any ideas, suggestions, solutions?

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[chiph]

For a DTD that is inside the XML document, you just concatenate them together:

<!DOCTYPE customer [
	<!ELEMENT customer (type, name, moreinfo)>
]>
<customer>
  <type />
  <name />
  <moreinfo />
</customer>

Chip H.


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[HumbleSeeker]

Thanks for the reply. The problem is that the DTD I want to include it into the actual exe file. Nice idea though. The problem is also componded by the fact that the XML is from a third party, so I don't really want to do anything that will change the file.

I've pretty sure that you can reference a DTD as an embedded resource, but I don't know how.

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[chiph]

Add it to the project, then right-click on it and change it's build option to EmbeddedResource. You can then retrieve it with the ResourceManager class.

Dim myManager As New _  System.Resources.ResourceManager("ResourceNamespace.myResources", _
myAssembly)

Dim myDTDString As System.String = myManager.GetString("StringResource")

Chip H.


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[HumbleSeeker]

Thanks. I see what you mean. I'll give it a try.

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